Lady&#39;s dress.



A. MALSIN.

LADYS DRESS.

APPLIOATION FILED SBPT.15,1013.

Patented Dec. 1, 1914.

ALBERT MALSIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LADYS DRESS.

Application filed September 15, 1913.

To all @071 am it may concern Be it known that I, ALnnR'r MALSIN,citizen of the United States of America, residing at New York, in thecounty of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Ladies Dresses, of which the following is aspecification.

The present invention has for its object to provide a combination waistand skirt, both adjustable in width, and particularly adapted for useduring pregnancy.

This invention particularly relates to dresses of such texture, that thegathering or plaiting of the excess width or fullness would beimpracticable and render the dress very clumsy.

To accomplish my object, I provide a waist, the waist line of which bymeans of elastics is rendered adjustable in width, and a skirt, which isslit either partially or throughout its entire length either at the sideor in front, and which only at the rear at the waist line is permanentlyfixed to the waist, while at the sides and in front it is detached romthe waist. The width of the skirt is made much larger than the width ofa normal person, so that when the skirt is worn in normal condition theexcess parts thereof at the slit will overlap one another more, and inabnormal condition less to lit the body. The two overlapping parts maybe atlixed to one another by any suitable means as hooks and eyes, ofwhich there may be a great plurality arranged in rows, so that theoverlapping parts may be fixed to each other according to adjustment.

The novel feature of the dress resides in that the skirt is only partlypermanently fixed to the waist and the unattached part thereof islongitudinally slit, whereby the adjustability of the skirt in width isrendered possible, without requiring any alteration or change of theshape of the skirt. Owing to the new construction, the skirt will alwaysfit the wearer whether in nor mal or abnormal condition, and have a neatappearance.

To render my invention more clear, the same is illustrated in theaccompanying drawing in which similar reference characters denotecorresponding parts and in which Figure 1 shows the dress in normalcondition; Fig. 2 in abnormal condition and Specification of LettersPatent.

Patented at... 1, 1914.

Serial NO. 789,733.

Fig. 3 shows an elevation of the dress, only a part of the waist and theskirt being shown.

The combination dress consists of the waist a and the skirt 7). Thewaist is made adjustable in width by an elastic band 0 provided at thewaist line. or in any other suitable manner. The skirt part b of thedress is permanently fixed to the waist only at the rear part of thewaist line, while the rest is detached from the waist, as at. 7), b.This detached part of the skirt is slit either partially or throughoutthe entire length of the skirt from the waist line on, as at (Z, (l. Thewidth of the skirt is so measured as to be larger than the width of anormal person, so that when applied by the latter the excess portions ofthe skirts width will fold over or overlap one another, as indicated bythe dotted line :0 in Fig. 1. to the extent required for the proper fit.\Vith a larger width, the excess portions will overlap a smaller extent,as indicated by the dotted line 1/ in Fig. 2.

The appearance or shape of the skirt in all instances remains the same.

The overlapping parts may be secured to one another by hooks and eyes,6, f or the like, of which there may be a great number arranged in rowsin close proximity to one another, so as to enable the closing of theskirt at different widths.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A ladys dress, consisting of a waist and a skirt, both adiustable inwidth. the skirt being only partially pcrmanentlyfixcd to the waist andthe unattached portion thereof being slit longitudinally fromthe waistline. and means for afiixing the adjacent slit parts to one another.

2. A ladys dress. consisting of a waist and a skirt, both adjustable inwidth, the skirt being only at the rear permanently fixed to the waistand the unattached portion thereof being slit longitudinally from thewaist line, and means for aflixing the adjustable slit parts to oneanother.

3. In a ladys dress. the combination with a waist having an elasticwaist band, of .a skirt which is only partially permanently fixed tosaid waist and which is slit longi tudinally from the waist line,including means for affixing the slit parts to one another.

4; In a ladys dress, the cmbination' with In testimony whereof I afiix'my signature a Waist having an elastic Waist band, of a in presence ofWitnesses.

skirt which is only at the rear permanently ALBERT MALSIN. fixed to theWaist and which is slit longi- Witnesses: 5 tudinally from the Waistline, including *W. LEVERMAN,

means for affixing the slit parts to one an- HARRY LEVERMAN, other.STEIN.

Gopies of this patent may be nbtainefi for five cents each, byaddressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0.

